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Akron University announced on Friday that they have cut the baseball program as part of several changes to the school.
The changes they have recommended are the following:
- Eliminating 215 positions via a planned reduction in workforce. No faculty layoffs are occurring.
- Eliminating baseball.
- Eliminating non-academic programming in EJ Thomas Hall, except for rentals.
- Outsourcing dining services.
- Renegotiating healthcare plans.
- Increasing the cost share of retiree dependent coverage.
- Changing the University’s retire/rehire policy.
- Centralizing course scheduling.
- Reducing central costs, such as legal fees and University memberships.
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